Leaders from Cuba to Iran attending Chavez’s funeral

Leaders from Cuba to Iran attending Chavez’s funeral

Leaders from Cuba to Iran attending Chavez’s funeral

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 10:12 PM PST

CARACAS, March 8 — At least two dozen heads of state were due to attend Hugo Chavez's funeral today during an outpouring of grief for the charismatic but divisive Venezuelan leader who changed the face of politics in South America. Chavez died on Tuesday at age 58 after a two-year battle with cancer, devastating millions of mostly poor supporters ...

UN threatens to stop working with Congo army units accused of rape

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 09:46 PM PST

UNITED NATIONS, March 8 — The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has threatened to stop supporting two Congolese army battalions unless soldiers accused of raping scores of women in an eastern town are prosecuted, a senior UN official said yesterday. The United Nations said 126 women were raped in Minova in November after ...

Cubans mourn Venezuela’s Chavez, worry about the future

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 09:11 PM PST

HAVANA, March 8 — Mourners lined up across the country yesterday as Cuba paid homage to the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, amid concerns that his generous policies would not survive him. In many cities and towns, people filed through government-arranged memorials to pay tribute to the man who poured oil and money into the island nation to ...

Two years after Fukushima, Japan’s nuclear lobby bounces back

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 09:02 PM PST

TOKYO, March 8 — The crowds of anti-nuclear protesters have dwindled since Japan's "Summer of Discontent" last year, and a new government is keen to revive the country's atomic energy industry, but Morishi Izumita says he is not about to throw in the towel. "We can't give up. I'm here every week," said 64-year-old Izumita, one of hundreds gathered ...

New York mother arraigned for hiring strippers for teen’s party

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 08:22 PM PST

NEW YORK, March 8 — An upstate New York woman pleaded not guilty yesterday to five counts of child endangerment after other parents complained that she hired female strippers for her son's 16th birthday party. Judy Viger, 33, of Gansevoort, New York, denied the charges of endangering the welfare of a child at her arraignment in the Town of Moreau ...

Suu Kyi’s inexperienced party in search of policies for Myanmar

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 08:08 PM PST

YANGON, March 8 — Aung San Suu Kyi's inexperienced party begins its first congress today aiming to push forward positions that will become increasingly important in the run-up to a 2015 election in Myanmar that could sweep it into government. For years Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) had the singular, unswerving objective of ending ...

US NTSB still seeking root cause of Boeing 787 fire

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 07:43 PM PST

WASHINGTON, March 8 — A US safety regulator yesterday released hundreds of pages of details from its probe of a battery fire aboard Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, but the information did not reveal what caused the January blaze, and a call for hearings on the matter could slow efforts to get the plane back in the air. The US National Transportation ...

Champagne, relief as Chavez’s detractors yearn for new era

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 07:08 PM PST

CARACAS, March 8 — As throngs of mourners pay homage to Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, his opponents are praying his self-declared socialist revolution will die with him, and some are even breaking out the champagne. Hiking in a leafy park in one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods of Caracas, far from the emotional scenes where Chavez lay in state, ...

Saudi accuses activists of lying to stir protests

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 06:37 PM PST

BURAIDAH (Saudi Arabia), March 8 — Saudi Arabia yesterday accused online activists of using social media to stir up protests, banned in the kingdom, by distributing "false information" about the number of people detained by the security apparatus. Concern over the fate of the kingdom's thousands of security detainees, who the government says are ...

Indian malnutrition fund used to fix buses: report

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 12:20 AM PST

A fund of millions of dollars raised to help malnourished children in western India has been diverted to maintain public buses, a report said on Friday.

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Pillow fight

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:59 PM PST

Young people on a pillow fight game to celebrate the International Women's Day in Changsha, China.

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Lynas' defamation suit against group remains

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:44 PM PST

The hearing of a defamation suit brought by Lynas Corporation Limited and Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd against the anti-Lynas group called 'Save Malaysia, Stop Lynas' (SMSL) remains at the High Court in Kuantan.

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Bar Tian Chua from Sabah: Lahad Datuk assemblyman

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:18 PM PST

A Sabah state assemblyman today urged the state government to ban Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) vice-president Tian Chua from entering the state after he alleged the Philippines militant intrusion was a drama staged by Umno.

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Knife attack in China's Xinjiang kills 4: government

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:33 PM PST

Several knife-wielding attackers killed four people and wounded eight others in China's ethnically-divided western region of Xinjiang, a government official said on Friday.

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Venezuela to embalm Chavez 'like Lenin'

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:32 PM PST

Hugo Chavez's political heir said Thursday that the late Venezuelan president and leftist leader would be embalmed "like Lenin" and displayed in the barracks where he plotted a failed coup.

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Japan recession over, recovery eyed

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:31 PM PST

Japan eased out of recession in the last quarter of 2012, with modest growth analysts said Friday underpins a strengthening economy, as the government and central bank up their fight against deflation.

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Suu Kyi's Myanmar party holds landmark congress

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:24 PM PST

Aung San Suu Kyi's long-silenced opposition opened its first ever party conference Friday, as it sets its sights on the challenges of power in Myanmar after years in the political wilderness.

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Facebook News Feed becomes personal newspaper

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:20 PM PST

Facebook on Thursday began transforming the stream of updates from friends at home pages into a "personalized newspaper" with news ranging from the personal to the global.

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Spotify will be available in Volvo cars

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:18 PM PST

Car manufacturer Volvo has announced an exclusive partnership with Spotify including a touch-enabled and voice-activated application that will be available in most of its cars via the Sensus Connected Touch system.

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Taiwan's HTC unveils new flagship smartphone

Posted: 07 Mar 2013 11:16 PM PST

Taiwan's HTC unveiled a new flagship smartphone in its domestic market Thursday with revamped designs which analysts said may boost the company's sluggish sales against rivals Apple and Samsung.

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